publications
Click on underlined links to read my work online. Publications with no links appeared in print only.
Visual Poetry
Erasures from Fascinating Womanhood
Phoebe - [Eve felt trapped…]
Sixth Finch - [O the mind…]
Pleiades - [O sticky, selfish infancy…], [Sometimes Mary…], [Deep in the deepest center…], [Ah, the violet motion…]
Gulf Coast -[What luxuries…], [I trust my ear…] (click titles individually for direct access)
Diode - [By the time the mirror saw me…], [I go wild…], [As a matter of sacred responsibility…], [Wash clean my ear…], [O pin around which all dreams revolve…]
Cincinnati Review - [Desire…], [O spill of bright pins…], [Devotion…], [Curiosity…], [There is no turning back…]
Thrush - [These things…], [Sing me open…], [Do you ever wake…]
CTRL+V - [That night…], [What would convert…]
TriQuarterly - [I used to spend my voice…], [The eye is first of all…], [Language is the slow unfolding…]
Diagram - [To the species…], [Only by inference…], [I built a house of dread…], [If you play house…], [We cannot quite remember…], [Just to see the spark land…]
MQR Mixtape (Michigan Quarterly Review) - [She measures her own…], [In a shining dress…]
The Normal School - [Spider omen/ dark star…], [We learn early…]
Poetry Online - [Sooner or later…], [A moth…]
Dream Pop Journal - [She listens for echoes…], [Standing under…], [There may be…]
Gasher - [Moth omen…], [Then one evening…], [Hungry the ache…], [Chant…], [I stand in the deep pines…]
Tupelo Quarterly - [The problem…], [O you stubborn unruly indomitable words…], [When a woman is set aside…], [I cling to that first amazement], [For years…], [I tried firing a little hole…], [How the play of her hand…], [One day I decided to call myself…], [In childhood…], [I went along…], [Spider omen…], [Practice this art…], [Knowledge…], [Her eyes…], [Know this…]
La Vague - [How to acquire attitude…], [There are four important mistakes…]
Waxwing - [The moon…], [Have you ever stumbled…], [here is an apple…]
Other Visual Poetry
Beyond the Frame - Diode Editions (also online) - 6 erasures from Light and Film: [Dark came…], [The reasons…], [Architect…], [Light lay motionless…], [O to light up…], [To shut off time…]
The Documentarian - “Index of an Ache in the Jaw,” published as a companion piece with A. Kendra Greene’s essay “The Fraction You Can Take In”
Poetry
32 Poems - “Tarantula at Big Bend”
Able Muse - “Wake”
Rust + Moth - “Murmuration,” “Darkroom”
Spillway - “This Window” (nominated for Best New Poets)
One (Jacar Press) - “The Answering Machine” (reprinted by the University of British Columbia’s Eco Art Incubator, in collaboration with Border Free Bees, as part of a public art project)
Southwest Review - “The Maze” (won the Morton Marr Poetry Prize)
The Writer’s Garret’s Common Language Project: Fortune - “Still Trying”
The Writer’s Garret’s Turn a Phrase series: “Earn It,” “Grand Piano”
The Boiler - “Words for a Resonant Space”, “Voice Lessons”
Southern Humanities Review - “His Hair” (nominated for the Pushcart Prize)
Spiderweb Salon’s Featured Writers series - “Leafy Sea Dragons”
Southern Poetry Review - “Invocation”
Poet Lore - “Van Nuys”
Measure - “Cirrocumulus”
The Texas Observer - “Jailbreak”
Mezzo Cammin - “Incubus,” “Seal”
All We Can Hold (anthology by Sage Hill Press)- “Dorchester Bay,” “The Morning,” “What Shall We Call You?”
Burnt Offering (anthology by Pork Belly Press / Sugared Water Press) - “Saving Something”
Faces of Dallas (collection of poems set to music by David Ross Lawn and performed by the Verdigris Ensemble) - “Just Down Highland Road From the Boarded-Up Grocery Store”
Prose
River Teeth - “Drawn In”
The Georgia Review - “Excellent Strangeness,” an essay/review of Her Read by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth
Illustration
Of All Places In This Place Of All Places - Joe Milazzo asked me to create cover art for his book-length poem, which was inspired by the little-known Dallas Garment Workers’ Strike of 1937. I learned that the strike occurred less than ten minutes from my home, and went and took graphite rubbings from the Lorch Building, the site of violent protests. Then I responded to the marks, connecting or surrounding them, thinking of the poem’s lines: “outline an imagined necessity/ a necessary complication.” This became an obsessive project; the finished book contains 14 drawings. Highlights below:
